Felix Karasev

Felix Karasev or Feliks Dmitriyevich Sutyrin (Russian: Феликс Дмитриевич Сутырин; 1 May 1929, Leningrad – 12 January 2023, St. Petersburg) was a KGB colonel and Soviet diplomat.

He served three times in Finland between 1963 and 1992.

His memoir Naapurinpojan muistelmat was published in Finnish in 1998.

[1] Both Vladimir Putin and Sergei Ivanov worked for Karasev when he was in the Leningrad and Leningrad Region Directorate of the KGB.

[2] Some sources say that Karasev was a KGB general.